Part time Laundry Assistant - Weekends

Prime Life; Ratcliffe on the Wreake; On-site; GBP 4,000 - 4,400; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully funded DBS

Comprehensive Holiday Pay

Refer a Friend £250

Job summary

Prime Life is seeking a Part time Laundry Assistant to support residents and ensure high standards of laundry service. The role includes handling residents’ clothing and household laundry, maintaining hygiene, and following infection control procedures, with full training provided.

The position offers a part-time weekend schedule, a fully funded DBS, comprehensive holiday pay, and a generous Refer a Friend bonus up to £250.

Qualifications

• Genuine caring nature and desire to make a difference for residents.
• No prior laundry experience required as full training provided.
• Patient, understanding and respectful of residents' abilities. Dementia awareness beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Processing residents personal clothing and household laundry to a high standard within the laundry service.
• Ensuring items requiring thermal disinfection are processed correctly and infection control procedures are followed.
• Ironing/pressing of personal and household laundry to a high standard.
• Maintaining laundry areas, equipment and linen cupboards in a clean, hygienic condition with adequate stock levels.
• Remain professional and courteous with residents, colleagues, external professionals, family members and visitors.
• Follow health and safety procedures and report risks to the Manager.
• Any other reasonable duties as requested by your Manager to meet changing needs of the business.

Skills

Caring nature

Patient

Dementia awareness

Job description

Make a difference every day and give back to your community!

Benefits of becoming our Part time Laundry Assistant:

In return for your commitment to ensuring a quality service provision for our residents, we can offer range of excellent benefits including;

• - Part time weekend shift -6 hours p/w with excellent hourly pay ranging from £12.96 rising to £13.32 dependent upon qualification
• - Opportunities to learn and progress with the support of our dedicated Quality Matters team
• - Fully funded DBS
• - Comprehensive Holiday Pay scheme that rewards you for your commitment to care
• - Fantastic Refer a Friend scheme, offering up to £250 per successful candidate!

Responsibilities of our Part time Laundry Assistant include:

• - Processing residents personal clothing and household laundry to a high standard within the laundry service
• - Ensuring that any items that require thermal disinfection are processed correctly and that infection control procedures are strictly adhered to
• - Ensuring that all items of personal and household laundry are ironed/pressed to a high standard
• - Ensuring that all items of personal clothing and household linen are in a good state of repair and to bring to the attention of the Hotel Services Manager/Care Home Manager when they are not
• - Maintaining all areas of the laundry, equipment and linen cupboards in a clean, tidy and hygienic condition, ensuring stock levels are adequate
• - Remaining professional and courteous at all times with residents, colleagues, external professionals, family members and visitors to the home
• - Following any health & safety procedures required of you and to ensure that any health and safety risks are reported to the Manager immediately
• - Any other reasonable duties, as requested by your Manager, to meet the changing needs of the business

What we’re looking for in our Part time Laundry Assistant:

To be successful within this role, you will have a genuine caring nature and a desire to make a real difference for our residents. Though prior experience as a Laundry Assistant is desirable, this is not essential as full training is provided. Typically, our residents live with age related conditions, life-limiting health conditions and physical disabilities that require dignified support from our care team. It is essential that candidates for this role are therefore patient, understanding and respectful of our resident’s individual abilities. Additionally, many of our residents live with dementia and as such an understanding of dementia would be beneficial.